Dervla Kirwan
Also Known As: 데블라 키어완
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dervla Kirwan (born 24 October 1971) is an Irish actress famous for roles in British television shows such as Ballykissangel and Goodnight Sweetheart. She also appeared in the Doctor Who Christmas special episode, "The Next Doctor" and provided the voiceovers for the well-known "this is not just food" television advertising campaign for UK retailer Marks & Spencer. Kirwan was born in Churchtown, Dublin, Ireland. Her father was an insurance broker, and her mother was a language teacher. She is the youngest of three daughters. Dervla is a great grand-daughter of Margaret Collins-O'Driscoll who was a sister of Michael Collins, one of the Irish leaders during the War of Independence. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dervla Kirwan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Churchtown, Dublin, Ireland
Birthday: October 24, 1971
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Gender: Female
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Silent Hours
Overview: Private detective John Duval, an ex-lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy and Naval Intelligence, finds himself the prime suspect in a police hunt for a sexual killer when three women are brutally murdered.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-01
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Mr White Goes To Westminster
Overview: A journalist becomes an independent MP. Loosely based on the election of Martin Bell to the constituency of Tatton between 1997 and 2001.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-31
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Sex in a Cold Climate
Overview: Interlocking interviews of 4 women interred in various Magdalene asylums and/or orphanages because of out-of-wedlock pregnancies, being sexually assaulted, or just being "too pretty".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-16
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Ondine
Overview: On the coast of Cork, Syracuse is a divorced fisherman who has stopped drinking. His precocious daughter Annie has failing kidneys. One day, he finds a nearly-drowned young woman in his net; she calls herself Ondine and wants no one to see her. He puts her up in an isolated cottage that was his mother's. Annie discovers Ondine's presence and believes she is a selkie, a seal that turns human while on land. Syracuse is afraid to hope again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-05
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Tetris: From Russia with Love
Overview: This is the story behind the fiendishly addictive game, a tale of high stakes, intimidation and legal feuds set against the backdrop of Cold War tensions between East and West.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-09
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December Bride
Overview: At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers. Pregnant, she refuses to reveal the name of the father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-17
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The Flint Street Nativity
Overview: With angels crying in the toilets all because of a jealous Angel Gabriel, it could only be the eagerly awaited performance of the Primary school nativity play - this time with a twist! The UK's finest comedy actors take the leading roles as the eight year old performers. Through the inevitable mishaps, misunderstandings, young egos, fears of failure and fallings out, the children's characters evolve into mirror images of thier parents, the nativity play's audience. You'll be drawn into the amusing and enchanting worlds and minds of young children and reminisce about your own childhood performances!
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-22
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Entity
Overview: In 1998, thirty four unidentified bodies were found in shallow graves in a remote Siberian forest. After subsequent investigations, no official explanation by the Russian authorities was ever offered about the circumstances of the deaths.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-24
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The Dark Room
Overview: In hospital, photographer Jinx Kingsley wakes from a coma after a car crash - a failed suicide attempt, prompted by her fiance Leo jilting her to elope with Jinx's lifelong best friend, Meg. The discovery of Leo and Meg's bodies - brutally murdered in the same manner as Jinx's first husband - makes Jinx the prime suspect. Then, with the help of eminent neuroscientist Dr.Alan Protheroe, some memories begin to surface. Memories of desperation and paralysing terror.
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-02
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With or Without You
Overview: Rosie and Vincent know each other for ten years, and are married for five. She doesn't like her job, he isn't too pleased working with her dad. They're trying to have a baby. One morning Benoit, a Frenchman and former pen pal of Rosie, whom she never met, comes to visit. Did Rosie love him? Does she love him now?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-10
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Luna
Overview: Renowned artist and filmmaker Dave McKean (MirrorMask) brings his distinctive blend of live action and gorgeously wrought animation to this dreamlike reverie about four people whose weekend idyll in an isolated English seaside home becomes an opportunity for spiritual healing.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-26
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Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Overview: The Doctor arrives in Victorian London. It's Christmas, but snow isn't the only thing descending on the tranquil and jubilant civilization, as familiar silver giants from an alternate reality are amassing in numbers. The Cybermen are on the move again, and the only beings who can stop them are the Doctor and... another Doctor?
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie Mystery Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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The Greatest Store in the World
Overview: Geraldine and her two daughters, Livvie and Angeline, are living rough on the streets on London. When their van blows up, they must find an alternative place to stay. At first, they live in temporary housing, but the conditions are unbearable. Geraldine reacts quickly and the family decides to take up residence in Scottley's, the best department store in London. They must keep it a secret from doorman Brian (whom the girls call Mr. Whiskers), and a couple of bumbling thieves who want to rob the store safe of its jewels.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-24
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Pete's Meteor
Overview: Lives change for members of an Irish family after a meteor crashes in their backyard. The kids believe that it was sent down to them by their dead parents, but the government hauls the rock away and sends it to the local university.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-31
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Lunacy: The Making of Luna
Overview: The making-of documentary for Dave McKean's film "Luna."
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-19
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School for Seduction
Overview: An Italian temptress arrives at a school in Newcastle to teach a group of Geordies about the art of romance.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-03
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Keeping the Peace
Overview: Five hundred soldiers of the Irish Defence Forces are stationed in Liberia, part of a 15,000-strong United Nations Peacekeeping mission, the largest UN force in the world. What does it mean to these young men and women to be peacekeepers? What does it mean to be soldiers trained in both how to fight and how not to? Rarely have peacekeeping soldiers talked so candidly and revealingly about the day to day realities of their job, trying to hold together a fragile peace in the aftermath of fourteen years of civil war.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-10
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The Lilac Bus
Overview: The lives of seven friends who share a bus from their village to Dublin every day get complicated as the reasons for their discontent are revealed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Deputy
Overview: The Deputy explores Bob Galway's life and work in the House of Commons and how it impacts on his personal life. Bob's a Deputy PM who is a man of the people - opinionated, principled and pragmatic. Surrounded by inefficient, highly-sexed private secretaries, a beleaguered Bob strives to protect his reputation, his career and his conscience as he tries to outsmart his adversaries in the cut and thrust world of Westminster.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-23
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War of the Buttons
Overview: War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-29
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Interlude In Prague
Overview: The incredible tale of Mozart's Prague years.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-25
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The Keeper
Overview: The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann, the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by winning the FA Cup Final for Manchester City in 1956 - playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-12-05
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The Fantasist
Overview: A young Dublin woman is stalked by a telephone charmer who poses victims nude and then stabs them.
Genres: Horror Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-27
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The Bombmaker
Overview: Expert IRA bomb-maker turned police informant Andrea Hayes retires and starts a new life after four school-children are killed by one of her bombs. Ten years later, her blissful home life shattered when her daughter, Katie, is abducted from her bedroom in the dead of night. Andrea later discovers a ransom note, instructing her to leave her husband Martin and fly to London by herself. It also states that if the police are contacted, she and Martin will never see Katie again. In the hope of being reunited with Katie, Andrea obeys orders and follows instructions to meet with the kidnappers. Back in Dublin, Martin is powerless to help and becomes frantic with worry when he learns from Andrea that no ransom demand has been made, and that the kidnappers' request is something much more dangerous.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-08
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Happy Birthday Shakespeare
Overview: Family man Will Green, a tourist bus driver is convinced that life would be better if he and his family moved to the birthplace of his favourite man Shakespeare’s birthplace Stratford-Upon-Avon where he could open his own restaurant. Will also harboured dreams about beginning a romance with tour guide Alice.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-23
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Last Call
Overview: A real estate developer returns to his old Philly neighborhood and must decide to raze or resurrect the family bar.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-19
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